'Are you kidding? God is so perfect, He doesn't have to exist!" said one well-known professor of theology when asked to explain creation.

This is from the Jim Holt book "Why Does the World Exist?" I underlined so much in this Liveright book that I have to buy another copy to read it again.

All we know right now is that we are living through something that resembles the beginning of one of the Ice Ages. This summer, we'll hardly remember it.

But winner takes all and it goes to The New Yorker magazine for Jan. 13. The cover? The New York Public Library lions (Patience and Fortitude) have been replaced by two polar bears.

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Rosie O'Donnell got another bargain recently. She bought a wonderful 1928 house in Saddle River, N.J., for only $6.3 million. It originally was on the market for $9.2 million, according to the Bergen Record. This is just a stone's throw from Manhattan and boasts five bedrooms, six baths, a library, elevator, pool and a wine cellar on almost six acres. This is one of New Jersey's most desired communities and has hosted the likes of Pat and Richard Nixon, Mary J. Blige and many other big celebrities.

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Now Polly Bergen, who won an Emmy in 1958 for her portrayal of singer Helen Morgan, is busy writing her memoir. Writer Stephanie Mansfield is the pro who is helping. Mansfield wrote Doris Duke's life story, which was turned into a successful CBS miniseries.

Polly will cover her early Hollywood life when wed to uber agent Freddie Fields, her backroom abortion at age 17, etc.

I am told the characters in this memoir will include everyone from Bugsy Siegel to Barbra Streisand to Ardeshir Zahedi to Elizabeth Taylor and Harry Belafonte. The book will cover everything from Polly's taking LSD with Cary Grant to playing Chris Colfer's ("Glee") grandma in 2012's "Struck By Lightning." Publishers can't wait for this tell-all, to be titled "Welcome to Pollywood."

Do you think Broadway has any culture left? Well, the producers of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and "Richard III" are announcing 100 percent recoupment of their investment. You should see the incredible British actors in these two plays.